Of course hard-core Labourites would feel shocked by certain government appointments, especially since every time a known Labour sympathiser has been appointed by this new Labour government there has...

This article is dedicated to those of us who are experiencing some feelings of helplessness and hopelessness due to a recent life change either because of a traumatic loss or because of a healthy...

The famous 100 days are over. Joseph Muscat, as expected, is still smiling away and telling us that everything is fine with his ways and methods and everything he has achieved has been close to...

At the beginning of the month, the European Commission imposed provisional anti-dumping duties on Chinese solar panels, the biggest anti-dumping case the EU has ever undertaken. The escalating trade...

It is customary for newly elected Prime Ministers and their Cabinet Members, to use their first hundered days in government to give an indication of things to come during their term of office. ...

The Nationalist Party is not going to get anywhere fast if it carries on parading about in a hair-shirt and ankle-chains, whipping itself and chanting ‘mea culpa, mea maxima...

Problem solving requires treatment of both the substance and the optics of the matter: only after taking both into consideration can one devise a proper, fair and lasting solution.   The...

The events of the last 15 days in Taksim Square have dominated the headlines of every media outlet in the western world and beyond. What has happened in Turkey goes beyond the actual protest over the...

Let me be frank. What’s in a name?  Does it make any difference?  In my generation babies were named after grandparents or the patron saint of the parents’ locality. Today babies...

It was announced late yesterday evening (just as I had finished writing my column and had to start all over again) that John Dalli is to be the new Minister for Health. Well, not in so many words,...